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Organizational Health Care with N2Growth: When was your Last Check-up?

N2Growth Blog

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them.

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Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality

Harvard Business Review

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Health Care Reforms That Work

Harvard Business Review

Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, and stroke are on the rise in both the developed and the developing world, and they have a few things in common. First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US.

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Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Driven by Profit

Harvard Business Review

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. A mission-driven payer mix.

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Stop Budgeting, Start Improving

Harvard Business Review

The typical approaches of budget cuts and layoffs usually don't result in sustained changes to their cost structure — the costs creep back. The mistake they make is to keep a tight grip on budgets to try to achieve their cost targets. The organization replaced the budget with a quarterly forecasting and planning process.

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Stepping Up Into Leadership

Women in the LEAD

  It is in these exciting times of change that we, as women, need to discover these specifically feminine qualities and attributes in ourselves and appreciate, develop and use them.     All this adds to the development of a harmonious world.   Men and women communicate differently.

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Stepping Up Into Leadership

Women in the LEAD

  It is in these exciting times of change that we, as women, need to discover these specifically feminine qualities and attributes in ourselves and appreciate, develop and use them.   All this adds to the development of a harmonious world.   Men and women communicate differently.